Jakob Wimpfeling

Jakob Wimpfeling

male, deceased (1528)
Jakob Wimpfeling (July 25, 1450-November 17, 1528) was a German Renaissance humanist and theologian. Wimpfeling was born in Schlettstadt, Alsace....
Sebastian Brant

Sebastian Brant

male, deceased (1521)
Sebastian Brant (also Brandt) (1457 - May 10, 1521), German humanist and satirist, was born in Strasbourg. He studied at Basel, took the degree of...
Conrad Celtes

Conrad Celtes

male, deceased (1508)
Conrad Celtes, also known as Conrad Celtis, Konrad Celtis (February 1, 1459 - February 4, 1508) was a German humanist scholar.
Hans-Georg Gadamer

Hans-Georg Gadamer

male, deceased (2002)
Hans-Georg Gadamer (February 11, 1900 - March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher best known for his 1960 magnum opus, "Truth and Method" ("Wahrheit...
Willibald Pirckheimer

Willibald Pirckheimer

male, deceased (1530)
Willibald Pirckheimer was a German Renaissance lawyer, author and Renaissance humanist, a wealthy and prominent figure in Nuremberg in the 16th...
Hartmann Schedel

Hartmann Schedel

male, deceased (1514)
Hartmann Schedel (February 13, 1440 - November 28, 1514), was a German physician, humanist and historian, one of the first cartographers to make...
Philipp Melanchthon

Philipp Melanchthon

male, deceased (1560)
Philipp Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwartzerd) (February 16, 1497 - April 19, 1560) was a German professor and theologian, a key leader of the...
Johannes Oecolampadius

Johannes Oecolampadius

male, deceased (1531)
Johannes Œcolampadius or Œkolampad. He was born in Weinsberg, a small town in the north of what is now Baden-Württemberg, but then belonging to the...
Sebastian Franck

Sebastian Franck

male, deceased (1543)
Sebastian Franck was a 16th century German freethinker, humanist, and radical reformer. Franck was born about 1499 at Donauwörth, Bavaria. Because o...
Caspar Peucer

Caspar Peucer

male, deceased (1602)
Caspar Peucer (6 January 1525-25 September 1602) was a German reformer, physician, and scholar. Born in Bautzen, Peucer studied mathematics,...